short circuit parsing

[nkabir]

Is it possible to short-circuit parsing? For example, can I use an
argument that will cause parsing to stop, not throw any errors and
forward the arguments to another method?

[Steven Bethard]

There's no easy way to do this. Can you describe why you're trying to
do this? If we know more of what you're trying to accomplish (what you
want your command line API to look like) we might be able to offer
some workarounds.

Steve
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[nkabir]

I managed to accomplish my goal by creating a custom action. I wanted
to do the following:

Support normal command line invocation
mycommand -p pval -q qval -r rval

Support interactive command line invocation
mycommand -i
please enter p: pval
please enter q: qval
please enter r: rval

(invokes mycommand -p pval -q qval -r rval)

Cheers,
--Norm

[Steven Bethard]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:52 PM, nkabir <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I managed to accomplish my goal by creating a custom action. I wanted
> to do the following:
>
> Support normal command line invocation
> mycommand -p pval -q qval -r rval
>
> Support interactive command line invocation
> mycommand -i
>  please enter p: pval
>  please enter q: qval
>  please enter r: rval
>
> (invokes mycommand -p pval -q qval -r rval)

Cool, yep, sounds like a custom action was the right way to go with
this. Glad you found a way.